skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to respect your evolutionary needs as a software engineer?
Modern day issues:
-\ plastics cause low testosterone or estrogen dominance (bad for men and women)
-\ attention economy of social media = low/no concentration
-\ junk/processed food and less nutrient dense foods due to modern agriculture -> excess body fat and nutrient deficiencies -> elevated estrogen production (aromatase) -> gynecomastia or low testosterone (even in younger males) -> TRT
-\ high stress -> elevated cortisol levels -> low testosterone
-\ low iodine -> health problems or more ADHD cases in children
-\ sitting too much -> bad posture and other health/joint problems
-\ no exercise -> elevated risk of insulin resistance/diabetes
-\ too much sugar -> brain fog -> dementia/Alzheimer's
-\ loneliness/social isolation -> mental health issues or depression

Is there more? Don't know.

The plastics issue can be perhaps fixed with an all metal and mouse keyboard. Not sure if such a thing even exist. The social media thing with discipline and too much sitting with standing desks.
High stress with meditation and mindfulness or exercise. And excess body fat with prolonged water fasting or cutting calories and exercise of course.
I am not sure about loneliness. Like for astronauts or prison inmates in solitary confinement. There's no companion AI yet akin to the AI in Her. What do you think about this? Evolution can't keep up with this much of technological advancement. So we need passable "bug fixes".

Cool: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p090s793/advice-from-a-104-year-old-phd-student

Edit: Sorry for the bad formatting...
HomeJoy. HomeJoy. HomeJoy. Needed right now. I still can't get over the fact that it failed. The sheer craziness of hiring independents over simply acting as a matchmaker platform and connecting companies with availability with people who need help still stuns me. The lawyers should have told them...but they seemed more interested in a simply <make money> role rather than an advisory one. Bring it back, focus on the Super Zips, encourage people to incorporate and serve as the lead generator...Care.com for the Home....simple.
note facebook still hasn't engaged directly with banned orgs or users, they only responded to financial times.

large anarchist pages were banned a while back and were not able to get a similar reversal, despite some media attention. twitter has taken action recently as well.

interestingly, left and anarchist pages tend to be banned only when furor/sentiment rises high against right-wing pages, and the bans seem to be done symmetrically to reduce perceptions of bias. for example crimethinc was knocked down same time as proud boys groups.
Yeah BTC bad, unregulated waste dumping into seasonal rivers good.

This recent spam of anti btc narrative is getting tiring.

We literally have oil spills that coat massive areas and companies are getting away with not paying for cleanup, but yeah btc is 'dirty' - oh and also 99% of btc is used for crime, and drugs and terrorism, and terrorism-crime!
Isn't that kind of like REI in terms of setup?
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Well written and easy to follow. Thank you for publishing this!
Depends how you define your "Christians." Wikipedia mentions 53.6% of Brits as Christian but as Brit I think I can safely say most of those don't take the bible seriously. Or Christ for that matter.
We may be in a bubble, but it doesn't matter
I hope the actual documentation contains a comment section (so we can discuss the material where it makes sense, and not e.g. on stackoverflow instead).
It only just occurred to me that Halt and Catch Fire didn't have a scene of a printer catching on fire, as best as I can remember. Or maybe it did and I just forgot? That would have been classic...
It's a matter of perception, especially in poorer countries like Brazil, why would anyone pay money for something that was previously free?

Good example of this is WhatsApp, IIRC it was free for a year then charged $1 for lifetime access, people still scrambled to get around the app(download illegal APKs, or recreate accounts).
This. In particular, a rowing machine with water for the home workouts, nothing else worked for me.
What problems do you have? I use Firefox exclusively and I'm a heavy Google app user too (laziness...), but I can't remember ever having a significant issue
Software Engineering was low status in US as well until they started to have a ton of software engineer first companies like Google where engineers hires and bosses around business people instead of the other way around.

Basically if typical engineers have business people anywhere in their management chain it is not an engineering first company. Not a lot of large companies are like that outside USA.
I'm thinking more like a library card or a driver's license. AFAIK those don't tend to be abused by any level of gov't.
“ This year, the conference has moved online and is being sponsored by Apple.”
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Probably just helped keep stress levels down.
First of all, this is a super cool website; I had no idea this existed. That said, it doesn't seem to suggest what timeframe these statistics are for (I've only had time to skim so far). As best I can tell, those are today's statistics, not the stats for the millennial generation, and I would fully expect the nouveau generation to have learned from our mistakes.
E.g. relative to the author's script, tarsnap get you automatic deduplication across backups... which, if you're like me and basically generate more and more data, allows you to store lots of historic backups at basically no overhead over just storing today's data.

Also, good encryption and security; e.g. Tarsnap is trusted by Stripe (https://www.tarsnap.com/testimonials.html).

Tarsnap does have real downsides - restores can indeed be slow, bare per-GB cost is high, and "like tar" is not a user interface that everyone will like - but there are definitely upsides, too.
> Google websites work better on chrome. Not sure if it’s because google is doing something nefarious or if Firefox is just not keeping up with google website technologies.

For a number of sites like YouTube and GMail, it's because of Google. If you change your useragent to look like Chrome, you get served a JS payload that Firefox is fine with, and it is faster.

If your useragent isn't Chrome, they'll serve you a less optimised payload, but which tends to have wider support.

They seem to have made a tradeoff - one that generally isn't necessary under Firefox.
Firefox sends everything you type in the address bar to google by default.

Would you be able to tell the difference between stock firefox and stock chrome if all you saw was the fiddler session? I don't know, I haven't tried. I did look at a firefox session in fiddler and I was not impressed.

Pick your poison. If you configure all the settings in firefox properly it might be acceptable. But can you just do the same in chrome? If not, you can use the privacy friendly chromium browser of your choice. Most firefox users wont take the time to configure it properly and the data will still reach the data gobbler.

Edit: an interesting comment from the other firefox thread https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25916762
Hah, ok dude? the feeling is mutual.
> Library support for static types is not very good.

Granted. I do think it's improving over time. For example the django-stubs project is a really nice addition to the regular Django distribution: https://pypi.org/project/django-stubs/
You should be opted out by default. The "Allow All" is the one that could in theory need to make N separate opt-in requests.
I have noticed it to be slower, and with more broken websites. I still prefer it over chrome.
I ve seen people talking about owning their twitter audience but the suggestion was to move away from twitter and towards self-hosting. Substack is promoted as a temporary in-between. Interesting that twitter thinks authors want to lock long-form content in there. What happens after the inevitable next Purge?
How do you like the RP3 in general? I thought seriously about that before getting the Oartec, mainly because it was cheaper and I didn't have a strong need for portability.
It's disingenuous to say that Gore would have won if it continued. It was basically a tie to several decimal places -- every recount could swing the balance one way or the other.
At least in my country, in the week just after christmas, in several children cable channels, the ads dissapear. Instead the run "ads" for other shows in the channel.

I guess that how TV without ads would look like.
Though, if anyone can quote him to the contrary, I'm happy to hear it and change my mind.
The difficulty with this advice is that it assumes that you have many small transactions.

Yes, of course, you should try to build your application so queries and transactions are very short. That solves a great many problems.

But sometimes you can't. Sometimes you just have to do joins across large tables. There just isn't any other way. Your query is going to run for 5, 10, maybe 30 seconds. That's a huge burden on your server, and it will slow down the other tenants. In that case, the only answer is to distribute the queries across other boxes.

I agree with the advice in general -- delay moving to a distributed system as long as possible -- but sometimes you just can't.
I don't know what you want to consider 'large scale', but I've definitely come across some Fortran code with dates in the comments from the 60s or 70s. Although the only I can find right now dates to 1983 (see https://github.com/nwh/lusol/blob/master/src/lusol_util.f#L3...).
Is this really important given that browser fingerprinting can almost always identify a web browser?
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It's probably one of the most obscure reasons, but keep Chromium around because it's the only web browser with a JIT-backed javascript engine on ppc64le. Firefox has to run everything interpreted, which is actually fine for most sites, but bogs down on JS heavy web app type things.

On a much less niche side of things, a lot of web apps like Teams, Zoom, and probably many others are only fully functional on Chromium, thanks to WebRTC specifics and some video encoding stuff that's only on Chromium. Don't know the details, but things like video and desktop streaming are limited to Chromium.

That could very well be an artificially enforced restriction, but I don't think it is. I think firefox is moving towards feature parity with Chrome on this one, I hope so anyway.
Nah I think I've sussed it.
Idea + splash page. This is to bring together interested people to begin organizing a co-op.

Grove is great. We need honestly need more companies like them!

B corps are cool and we consider it, but they aren't really well regulated. What it means to be a B Corp is a bit vague. Being a CO-OP basically bakes into our DNA being "evil"(not exactly, but there are additional measures that will allow for it, ie. being a multi-stakeholder co-op for example which is our plan).
"In the case of Firefox’s image cache, a tracker can create a supercookie by “encoding” an identifier for the user in a cached image on one website, and then “retrieving” that identifier on a different website by embedding the same image."

Clever. And so frustrating that optimisations need to be turned off due to bad actors.
I've watched it (all seasons) twice so far and definitely expect I'll watch again at some point. It's one of the few shows I've ever watched that I feel like was essentially perfect. Not too long, not too short, well written, interesting characters, just enough nostalgia, and so on.

*spoiler alert*

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If I could criticize anything, it might be the death of one of the major characters. I mean, it was good drama, and definitely a heart-wrenching sequence. But almost too much so, if such a thing is possible in a drama.
How is that even legal
You're stretching really hard to make them equivalent. There are a number of reasons to use FF besides telemetry.
Charging infrastructure in the UK is so bad - I have so many terrible apps on my phone to activate the many brands of different charging points. So I'm very happy to see consolidation if that's going to make charging more reliable.

The mystery for me - why don't they all work on contactless payment? (like Instavolt does) That way, I don't need an app, account, tracking or anything else - just tap my card and start charging.
Serious question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65904903/will-third-part...

EDIT: why the downvotes?
Google refuses to let Firefox have their voice typing feature.
On behalf of millions of users, that's awesome and thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you do.
I was just grousing about not being able to crop an image in Drive. Heading off to check out Photopea...
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> I literally implemented support for the navigator.clipboard.write API

I beg you, do not let websites put things into my clipboard.
That's fair, although to me that suggests we need to create easier self-hostable blog/newsletter tools, not all migrate to Twitter's next big fishtank
>Even your fairly simple heuristic that works in most cases is easy to screw up due to a typo / brain fart,

This argument can be made for "safer" languages just as easily. Most of the web exploits that exist, like request smuggling, parser abuse, or generic exploit involving a sequence of API calls, are all due to brain farts. At a certain level you have to expect some competency.

My main argument is that the competency for writing C code isn't that much higher than for other languages.
> I have looked at even just some of the evidence and just alone the statistical data indicates extremely strongly that at least something was clearly wrong that would cause any good faith and rational person to at least want to look further at the data. And there are several instances like that, not even just one that I found.

Are you talking about something other than the Beneford's law stuff or the lead changing overnight in places that count in-person votes before they count mail-in votes or that finish counting rural areas before they finish counting urban areas?
Speed, especially with a large number of tabs opened, and the Dev tools. Chrome's are the most polished by far, and it's trivial to do remote debugging on Android devices.
By Supercookie they mean Evercookie, right? That seems to be what they’re describing.
Can you please detect I'm using Firefox, and not show the "Download Firefox" banner on top? I'll be able to save a few pixels of vertical space.
To clarify, do you mean therapy in the psychiatrist sense or some specific physical thing for bruxism? I could imagine either helping with this issue
The browser can't do everything. Not yet at least. It's an inappropriate platform for real time software, like audio.
I agree. Visit any one of these many sites that show you what your browser knows about you, it doesn’t matter if using Firefox, the site reveals a tremendous amount of information in your fingerprint. Firefox doesn’t stop any of that, despite a setting that supposedly protects you from fingerprinting.
Yeah that's fair. I think I need some concrete data before making statements like these - In absolute numbers, Millenials haven't been hitting the financial milestones that their parents did (incomes, home ownership %, retirement savings etc.).

If that's worth the non stop complaining, I have to figure out.
Just browsing the rollcall of 2004, current members I recognize: Jim Clyburn, Raul Grijalva, Senator Ed Markey, Sheila Jackson-Lee. I'm sure there are more still around.

Source: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll007.xml
Any of those shoals are identified outside of current EEZ, which is ~250 miles, however any neighbouring country can make claims to all those shoals as soon as they became islands, simply because of extended seabed or any other reasons - one of those is that they simply might not recognize such neighbours. If new owners of shoal can defend their rights from existing nations, then they could succeed, however, this opens can of worms, because most of the ocean is unclaimed and with automation in near future it is possible to make artificial islands regardless of any depth of the ocean - as a side product from deep sea mining.

This post however misses other exciting and less expensive chapters how to make your own country and succeed in doing so:

1. How to invade other country and make it your own?

2. How to organize a coup and overthrow government of already existing country and make it your own?

3. How to steal a country and pretend to rule it?

Ah, the possibilities... most of them are already executed and in action.
Woman fights Harvard over rights to nude SC images of her enslaved ancestors
The empire is supporting a dystopian nightmare of a "kingdom", a genocide in Yemen, a world war against Iran and many other garbage policies for the sake of these disgusting tyrants.

Of course it would oppose this movie.
To summarize how I see it.

2 democrat affiliated papers(working together inflamed opinion against the republican president) and 2 democrat journalists(1 in each newspaper) called for the assassination of the republican president. Which ended up happening couple months later.

Then compare to today wherein left-leaning news is publishing fake news to inflame opinion.

Also what's the solution? The democrat owners of the papers saw the damage they were doing and decided to stop their fake news?

There wasn't a solution.
Absolutely! And they have a truly excellent customer service and reply within minutes. If you have any problems with your order (be it related to the delivery time/estimate or the product itself), they are quick to compensate (usually with credits or a delivery voucher).

On the other hand, rumor has it, their commission is around 30 % of all sales in addition to the delivery charged directly from the customer.
> Every cent you "save" is diluted when the Federal Reserve decides to print up a trillion or two.

And yet, disregarding exceptional circumstances in world history, it's generally stable. I can buy bread for roughly the same amount of dollars I bought it for last year.

> You can't "print up" a few trillion Bitcoins. You can't add more. You can't magically make them go away (unless of course your throw away your hard drive with the wallet data on it...).

You can do plenty other funny things if you have equivalent amount of power.

> And unlike any other type of currency, where some shady deal can take place and there's absolutely no record of it... there's a ledger of every single transaction ever made on the Bitcoin network. You may not know who that address belongs to, but the transaction is there.

Sure. But instead, you can just... give someone the key to your address. Roughly equivalent to how shady deals happen with fiat - you give someone a briefcase full of cash.

All of that is irrelevant to the point here, though: the point is that if you tried to imagine an evil mastermind hell-bent on accelerating climate change, Bitcoin is what they would come up with - an engine of unlimited energy waste, fueled by naivety and unadulterated greed.
Even if you've changed the search engine?
I've had this issue when I switched back to Firefox one year ago, but now I have this sequence in my muscle memory: ctrl + l to focus the address bar, tab to highlight first result, enter to load it.
Someday someone will reimplement it in React, and you will only need an i9-9900k with 64Gb to run it somewhat smoothly.
Tracking has become so bad that it seems like users have to spend money (more bandwidth) to protect themselves from it.

Crazy and sad to see where we've come :\
Firefox takes privacy so seriously that they fail to detect you are on Firefox, if you are using Firefox!
What is exactly better? I am using FF and browse Google websites, but never noticed anything.
Are there any plans for complete partitioning?

I'd like to see a point where browsing on two different websites are treated as a completely different user. Embeds, cookies, cookies in embeds, etc.
The Data Visualization Society is a great community for discussing historical visualization.
Yes, if there were a virus that killed 10% of people of all ages and was as contagious as Covid-19, it would be a civilization-level threat and it would be worth extreme measures to attempt to stop its spread (I'm not optimistic that it _could_ be stopped, but it'd at least be worth trying). What's your point?
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I've started using Harbour Air for my trips over to Vancouver Island quite frequently over the past few years. At one point I did the calculation and taking the floatplane ends up saving me 3-4 hours of travel time, all for about an additional cost of $70 (versus taking the bus out to the ferry and being a walk on), even less if I consider that my trips are frequently Friday evenings and I end up having to grab dinner on the way or on the ferry.
Most people don’t care about politics. They still use FB products. A third of people don’t even vote.
It doesn't matter if it's accidental or not. It's a ticking time bomb having that capability aimed at the population when so many people rely on FB Messenger or WhatsApp for basic communication.

It's illegal for your wireless carrier to cancel your service for having legal conversations on your phone that they don't like, despite it running over their own private towers. It's totally legal for Facebook to shut off your account for posting things Facebook doesn't like, which is the only contact info most people have for most people they talk to.

https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/

Facebook is already engaging in censorship, both on the timeline and in private DMs. Why do people permit this to continue?

What will it take, FB banning posting or linking to any page critical of FB, even in DM?

It blows my mind people continue to donate time and content and attention to platforms that tell them what they can and can't say in a private conversation with their friends.
> And ultimately, the objections in 2000 changed the overall result of the election

How so?
Cool let's censor animal right activists.

And in case you don't follow, it's because the Nazis were very pro animal rights.
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So BTC gets a pass for its wastefulness and contribution to climate change because there exists other bad actors in the world?
Funnily enough, just last week I deleted both Facebook and Twitter, even though they 'cost me nothing'.
If that is the case then I hope they are split up on antitrust grounds. But somehow I doubt the current administration will go after big tech.
They don't. Tracking that someone is straight would be subject to the same rule.
Nothing wrong with that as long as the climate improves.
Tesla has already built a handful of entire mall complexes around a core of rapid chargers. I guess the model is you plug in and then go choose from one of the immediate destinations to spend your 20 minutes.
I've had weird little breakages. Right now in Firefox, I am unable to search within a given Youtube channel. Works fine in Chrome.

Edit: I am a diehard Firefox user and fall back to Chrome only when I have to because of some weird breakage. One of those is editing within Atlassian's Confluence: find within a Confluence page doesn't work right in FF, and I've often had @name references messed up too upon saving. Chrome works fine.
> To be fair, voters thought the 2016 election was fraudulent too. Russia, Cambridge Analytica, #NotMyPresident.

There’s a key difference: nobody credible said that the election itself was fraudulent. There were a few hucksters, of course (e.g. Jill Stein cashing in for the Green Party), but Clinton immediately conceded and the focus of all of the subsequent discussions were about things like propaganda campaigns and use of social media influence campaigns. There were no credible allegations of vote fraud and nothing like a multi-month campaign trying to trump up state support for overturning the election results.